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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Aug 06, 1908
Page
3
Rural and mining news from British Columbia lists strawberry payments to Kootenay ranchers, a Conservative candidate for Nanaimo, train service revival between Kaslo and Sandon, Nashville townsite plans, copper shipments, Prince Rupert club, and early school trustees. Also notes legal moves, mine developments, a Grand Forks student pole voyage, fruit yields, a jam factory, cement bricks, and several local deaths and suicides.
The Corbin Road construction from McGillvery to Corbin coal camp progresses with nine miles of track cleared and three miles of grading underway. A. Grey of Spokane will grade seven miles, Breckenridge & Lund seal a grading contract, and one mile of steel is in place. About five hundred workers are employed across camps, with fifty at Corbin coal camp, and larger numbers expected soon. Lieutenant Fred T. Evans, son of Rear Admiral Evans, assaulted Lieutenant J. S. Carder aboard the battleship Georgia. a court martial is planned as the fleet moves south.
A cryptic entry lists several time ranges 9.00 to 10.00 2.00 to 4.00 7.80 to 8.80 and an apparent negative value -2.80 to 4.80 with a final note hoon on BC. The fragment lacks context or clear events.
A national provisional committee meeting in Chicago previews Hearst leadership for the upcoming Hearst organization convention. Hearst controls the session and denies any coalition plans with the Democrats. Delegates feel he may be forced to head the ticket despite claims of a dead Democratic party.
A. L. McDermot, secretary of the board of trade, came back from Winnines last Thursday due to his mother's serious illness. He reported her condition improved with hope of recovery. While away he promoted district progress and distributed over five hundred board of trade pamphlets. Prairie crops look good. A. Nol forecasts a splendid harvest.
Catherine McInnis of Elkmouth British Columbia intends to apply for permission to use 400 acres described by a parcel starting at the northwest corner of Lot 123 East Kootenay District. The path runs east 80 chains north 80 chains west to Lot 6261 and follows the foundary line of Lots 6261 and 4142 and the Crows Nest Southern railway right of way. Dated June 11 1908. Notice states sixty days after publication for expiration.
Richard G. Barnwell of Winnipeg petitions the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works under the Rivers and Streams Act to gain rights to improve Skookumchuck Creek up to nine miles above its junction with the Kootenay River. He seeks toll rights and to remove obstructions for rafting logs and timber, affecting Skookumchuck Creek and tributaries, with parcels tied to numerous special timber licenses and crown lands in East Kootenay.
The Dominion lands in the railway belt of British Columbia allow homesteading by sole family heads or males over 16, on a quarter section of 100 acres. Entry must be at the local land office, with proxy possible under specified relations. Residence and cultivation rules apply, with three plan options and six months’ prior written notice to Ottawa. Also coal leases offer 21 year terms at $1 per acre with a five cent royalty per ton.
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